Jim Gray Vita

Short vita: Jim Gray is part of Microsoft's research
group. His work focuses on eScience: using computers analyze scientific data
and on the related topics of databases and transaction processing. Jim is active
in the research community, is an ACM, NAE, NAS, and AAAS Fellow, and received
the ACM Turing Award for his work on transaction processing. He edits of a
series of books on data management, and has been active in building online
databases like http://terraService.Net and
http://skyserver.sdss.org.